Today, January 4, is Perihelion Day!
(at least this year)
Perihelion day occurs about two weeks after every December Solstice, and on this day, Earth’s center is approximately 91,402,500 miles from the sun’s centre.
Today our sun appears the largest in our sky as it will be for the entire year!
So to celebrate our sun, here is a bright yellow raku vase fresh from the kiln!
So let’s celebrate our big sun in the sky!
For another Sunny Yellow Vase – Check out Helios!

This could light up an entire room!
It certainly can! It’s currently on the dining room table and doing that very thing! 🙏
Good to know! That is a lovely vase.
Thank you! Glad you like it 🙏 I hope you are keeping well!
Interesting! And the choice of my fave colour -yellow- is perfect!
Thank you Chris! So glad that it resonates with you 🙏
Love that color!
It is definitely a bright and rich yellow! 🙂 Hope you are keeping well, Grace! 🙏
Happy Perihelion Day to you! The colour of the vase is certainly appropriate for the celebration.
Thank you Linda! I hope you had a great one as well and so glad you liked the vase! 🙏
Color, shape, texture, cracks–everything’s perfect with these vases! They seem to glow of their own accord. Beautiful work as always! 🙂
Thank you Mike! The yellow ones are especially glowing, in person even more so! 🙏 Hope you are keeping well!
What a lovely bright vase!
thank you, Silver!
Happy Perihelion Day to you too! I love that shade of yellow.
Thank you Julia! I hope the sun is shining brightly where you are today (it always is, just behind the clouds sometimes!)
Happy Perihelion Day to you too! What a gorgeous vase! Such a happy color.
Thank you Eugi! Yellow never fails to get me smiling 🙏
Trying to celebrate the sun…though the heavy snow clouds. Unusual for Victoria, a dump of about 6-8 inches where most people don’t have snow tires! The yellow you use is bright and cheerful. Do you do many small vases?
wow that must have been something! That is a LOT of snow for victoria! We do have some smaller vases here as well https://rakupottery.ca/rakuties/